Bottle-cap fastener



No. 609,393. Patented Aug. vI6, |898.l

P. LINDEMEYR.

I BOTTLE CAP FASTENER.

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No. 609,393. Patented Aug. lli7 |898.

P. LI-NDEMEYR.

BOTTLE CAP FASTENER.

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ASSIGNMENTS, TO CLEMENT W. JERSEY.

SHOEMAKER, OF BRIDGETON, NEW

' BOTTLE-CAP FA STEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.`609,393, dated August 1G, 1898.

Application filed December '7, 1897. Serial No. 661,060. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP LINDEMEYR, a resident of the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Cap Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same. i

The invention relates to bottle-caps and bottles, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient means for fastening caps upon bottles; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out. Y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of a cap. Fig.`2 is an opposite side elevation. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the fastener. Fig. 4 is a plan of the cap situated on a bottle with the cap-fastener in place. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 4E. Fig. 6 is a plan of a modification of cap and fastener. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7 7 ofFig. 6. Fig. S is a section on line S 8 of Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a plan of a modified cap and cap-fastener and bottle, the dotted lines indicating the fastener loosened. Fig. -10 is a section on line l0 lO of Fig. 9. Fig. ll is a side elevation of the cap and fastener shown in Figs. 9 and l0. Fig. l2 is an opposite side elevation of the same.

Numeral l denotes a cap having a flange or skirt provided with slots 2, each having its upper wall or edge inclined, as indicated. The slots may be situated equidistant; but preferably two of them area little nearer each other than either to the third.

The cap is provided with a nipple 3, preferably formed integral therewith and upset at its outer end and adapted to act as a pivot for a wire fastener or bar having two arms l. This fastener is preferably thin and fiat, as indicated, and` is conveniently made of the material known as clock-wire. The outer` end of each arm 4 is bent at 5 transversely to the main part. Each bent part 5 has its eX- tremit'y'6 inwardly bent and entered in one of the slots 2 and also entered under a shoulder 7, formed in or on the bottle-neck by a groove or otherwise. The extremities or fingers 6 can be entered in the cap-flange slots by slipping the fastener sidewise on the cap before upsetting the nipple of pivot 3 in its place at or near the junction of the two-armed fastening-bar.

The device above described could be used to bind the cap upon the bottle-mouth, the construction being such that the fingers 6 ena gage the inclined wall of the slots and also the shoulder of the bottle-neck and, being suitably rotated toward the upper part of the in eline, pushrdown the cap; but for greater security and ease of operation, however, a lever 8, provided with a bend 5 and a slot-engaging finger 6, is pivoted at 9 to one of the arms 4c between lugs, such as 10 and ll, on said lever. When the clamping bar or lever 8 is moved about its pivot and brought against lug 10, as indicated in Fig. 5, it rotates the two-armed bar about its pivot 3 and crowds its fingers 6 against the inclined wall of the slots, as stated, and thereby pushes down the cap upon the bottle-mouth and practically locks its down. The same movement of the bar or lever S forces its finger 6 against the upwardly-inclined edge of its slot,thereby insuring a cap tightening and binding action on the side opposite the two-armed bar. Said inclined edge or wall of the slot ma be roughened or serrated to obviate slipping, if desired. If the lever 8 be moved in a contrary direction to release the cap, its finger will be thrown out of the cap-slot by reason of the eccentric position of its pivot 9. Such movement causes the lever 8 to engage the lug 10 and move the two-armed bar so as to carry its linger 6 into the lower parts of the slots and so loosen or disengage their hold that the cap can be withdrawn from the bottle.

Thefingers 6 of the two-armed bar will be stopped by the lower inclined metal edge of the slot or by its end, and the lever will be stopped by lug 11, though stops maybe formed on the cap, if desired.

l2 denotes a small finger-piece on lever S. Its use is not essential.

In the form illustrated inl Figs. 6to 8, inclusive, the lingers 6 engage under a shoulder 7, situated below the foot of the cap-flange. 14 denotes depressions in the cap-top, adapted to receive studs 15, fixed to the two-armed bar. These depressions or troughs have inclined bottoms so arranged that when the bar is rotated and the studs 15 moved toward the shallow end of the inclined bottoms of the depressions they push down the cap. The lever 8 also has a stud 15, which moves in a depression 16, having a serrated bottom. This lever 8 moves the two-armed bar in the manner above described in connection with other gures of the drawings. When turned to the left, as shown in Fig. 6, its stud part of depression 16 and crowds the cap down with a like action of the other studs. l/Vhen swung to the right, as indicated by dotted lines in said ligure, the stud of bar 8 may escape from the deep end of its trough, such end being open at the circumference of the cap.

In Figs. 9 and 10 a fastening 4 is shown consisting of a single arm pivoted to the cap and provided with a locking-linger 6. 8 is a fastening bar or lever pivoted to the arm 4 and also provided with a locking-linger 6. Lugs on the arm or bar et are denoted by 18 and 19. In the situation illustrated in full lines the fingers 6 engage the lower inclined wall of slots 2, and they also engage a shoulder 7 and push the cap down upon the bottlemouth. lVhen swung to the right, as indicated by dotted lines, the finger G of the lever 8' is thrown out of its slot, and the linger 6 of arm 4 is moved toward the lower end of the slot by the end 8 of the lever 8', which strikes the lug 18. The lever when moved back in the opposite direction engages the lug 19 by its extension S and locks the cap in manner substantially as described.

2O (see Fig. 5) denotes a wax or plastic packing, and 21 a cover of parchment-paper. The action of the above-described fasteners forces the cap against the packing and the packing against the bottle-mouth and closes the bottle tightly.

The parts called bars and levers may be made of flat wire, as stated, and have a thickness of about one-thirty-second of an inch and a width of one-eighth, though the dimensions may be varied. It is desirable to make the cap top and fastener approximately flat, so as to not interfere' with an additional cover, such as a wrapper. The fastener is a fixture on the cap and not liable to be n1isplaced. It is preferably made of strong and rigid or approximately rigid metal, and spring action is not desired and is not necessary. The plasticity of the packing, which is preferably similar in general character to shoemakers wax, insures a gas-tight fit, although the fastening devices are made light and operated with small force. It is desirable that the top of the cap be imperforate, and the preferred method of constructing the fastenerpivot integral with the cap has been described; but other methods are not excluded.

My improvement is characterized, among other features, by a bar pivoted to the cap and by a pivot integral with the cap formed by punching or like method and that can cause no leakage and by a lever combined with such bar, the lever also constituting a clamping-bar.

Having described my invention, what I claim isp p 1. The combination of a bottle or like vessel with a cap, a fastening-bar pivoted to the top of the cap and adapted to engage the bottle, and a clamping-bar connected to said fastening-bar at one side of its pivot and provided with a bottle-engaging part, as 6, movable eccentrically with respect to the bottle-mouth whereby it can bind the bars and cap on the bottle or release them by rotation of the clamping-bar, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a bottle or like vessel with a cap, a fasteningbar pivoted to the top of the ca p and adapted to engage the bottle, and a clamping-bar connected to said fastening-bar at one side of its pivot and provided with a bottle-engaging part, as t5, movable eccentrically with respect to the bottle-inouth whereby it can bind the bars and cap on the bottle or release them by rotation of the clamping-bar, said cap having inclined surfaces and the bars engaging said surfaces, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a bottle or the like, a cap, a fastening-bar pivoted to the center of the cap, and a clamping-bar pivoted to the fastening-bar between its pivot and the circumference of the cap, both bars having .tingers to engage the cap and the bottle to hold them in close connection, and the clampingbar and its finger being movable eccentrically of the cap to loosen or tighten the engagement of the several lingers, and a plastic packing between the cap and the bottle-mouth, substantially as described.

l. rlhe combination of a bottle or like vessel, a cap provided with inclines, a capfas tening bar pivoted to the cap-top, a clampingbar pivoted to the fastening-bar at one side of its pivotal connection with the cap and adapted when moved in one direction to engage one of the inclines and when oppositely moved to swing clear of the cap, and means whereby the clamping-bar may positively engage the fastening-bar to disengage it from the bottle, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a bottle or like vessel having a shoulder 7, a cap provided with depressions or troughs in its top having inclined bottoms, a cap-fastening bar pivoted on the cap and adapted to engage said shoulder, and a lever pivoted to the bar, said bar and lever having lugs adapted to move in the recesses along said inclined bottoms either to lock or to release the cap, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two su bscribing witnesses.

PHILIP LINDEMEYR.

Vitnesses:

FRANK D. BLAcKIsToNE, BENJ. R. CATLIN.

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